Re: Star Wars in Trav

[email removed] (Stephen Camp) writes:
>
> What's the Traveller equivalent of a Star Wars Blaster?  Is there one?
> ...
> Is a Blaster just a pulse laser?  Or is it more like a plasma/fusion
> gun (pgmp / fgmp)?

It fires a bolt which glows, which explodes when it hits something, and which
you can see moving.  I'd guess that makes it a plasma weapon of some sort.  I
believe a plasma pistol was described in some Traveller publication, but I can
not remember where.

A primitive laser with a back-pack power supply was described in one of Brian
Daley's books about Han Solo, if I remember correctly. ;-)

> Do people consider the Star Wars universe to be incompatible with
> the Traveller universe (the Force not withstanding)?  I know they
> have 'hyperspace' and we have 'jumpspace', but are they so different?

Try building an X-wing using MT rules, complete with hyperspace/jump drives,
and 4 lasers plus a power plant which can drive them and its manouevre drive
at the same time.  Don't forget the deflector shields and the proton torpedoes.
When you've done that, try to figure out to the nearest millisecond how long a
Star Destroyer would last against something with a meson gun, factor T. ;-)

>					I don't know if their power
> sources have been discussed all that much in the movies/books on Star
> Wars... Anyone got a clue as to whether it is fusion or anti-matter
> based?  I'd guess fusion.

That's my guess as well, judging by the Star Wars RPG.

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